Teks -- Romans 7:3 (NET)

7:3 So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: Rom 7:3 - While the husband liveth

While the husband liveth ( zōntos tou andros ).

Genitive absolute of present active participle of zaō .

Robertson: Rom 7:3 - She shall be called

She shall be called ( chrēmatisei ).

Future active indicative of chrēmatizō , old verb, to receive a name as in Act 11:26, from chrēma , business, from chraomai , to use, then to give an oracle, etc.

Robertson: Rom 7:3 - An adulteress

An adulteress ( moichalis ).

Late word, in Plutarch, lxx. See note on Mat 12:39.

Robertson: Rom 7:3 - If she be joined

If she be joined ( ean genētai ).

Third class condition, "if she come to."

Robertson: Rom 7:3 - So that she is no adulteress

So that she is no adulteress ( tou mē einai autēn moichalida ).

It is a fact that tou and the infinitive is used for result as we saw in Rom 1:24. Conceived result may explain the idiom here.

Vincent: Rom 7:3 - She shall be called

She shall be called ( χρηματίσει )

See on Act 11:26.

JFB: Rom 7:2-3 - if her husband be dead

"die." So Rom 7:3.

JFB: Rom 7:3 - she be married

"joined." So Rom 7:4.

Clarke: Rom 7:3 - So then, if, while her husband liveth

So then, if, while her husband liveth - The object of the apostle’ s similitude is to show that each party is equally bound to the other; but that the death of either dissolves the engagement

Clarke: Rom 7:3 - So - she is no adulteress, though she be married to another

So - she is no adulteress, though she be married to another - And do not imagine that this change would argue any disloyalty in you to your Maker; for, as he has determined that this law of ordinances shall cease, you are no more bound to it than a woman is to a deceased husband, and are as free to receive the Gospel of Christ as a woman in such circumstances would be to remarry.

TSK: Rom 7:3 - So then // though

So then : Exo 20:14; Lev 20:10; Num. 5:13-31; Deu 22:22-24; Mat 5:32; Mar 10:6-12; Joh 8:3-5

though : Rth 2:13; 1Sa 25:39-42; 1Ti 5:11-14

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Rom 7:3-4 - Question // Answer // By the body of Christ // Fruit unto God

Ver. 3,4. Ye also are become dead to the law i.e. ye are taken off from all hopes of justification by it, and from your confidence in obedience to it, Gal 2:19 . The opposition seems to require that he should have said, the law is dead to us; but these two phrases are much the same.

Question. What law does he mean?

Answer. Not only the ceremonial, but the moral law, for in that he instances, Rom 7:7 . The moral law is in force still; Christ came to confirm, and not to destroy it; but believers are freed from the malediction, from the rigid exaction, and from the irritation thereof. Of this last he speaks, Rom 7:8,9 , and from it we are freed but in part.

By the body of Christ i.e. by the sacrifice of Christ’ s body upon the cross; thereby he delivered us from the law, in the sense before mentioned.

Fruit unto God i.e. fruits of holiness and good works, to the glory and praise of God.

Gill: Rom 7:3 - So then if while her husband liveth // she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress // but if her husband be dead // she is free from the law // so that she is no adulteress // though she be married to another man

So then if while her husband liveth,.... True indeed it is, that whilst her husband is alive, if

she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; she will be noted and accounted of as such everybody, except in the above mentioned cases:

but if her husband be dead; then there can be no exception to her marriage:

she is free from the law; of marriage, by which she was before bound:

so that she is no adulteress; nor will any reckon her such; she is clear from any such imputation:

though she be married to another man; hence it appears that second marriages are lawful.